In summer, southern Jiangxi, Jiangxi, beautiful mountains and rivers and green forests.
86 years ago, the main forces of the Party, Government and Military of the Chinese Soviet Republic set out from here, embarked on a long journey, and began the arduous 25,000-mile Long March. Now, once again entering the southern Jiangxi Soviet Area, this red hot land that embodies the "original aspiration" of the Chinese Communists has rejuvenated green vitality.
Jiangxi is a key collective forest area in southern my country. The vast low-altitude evergreen broad-leaved forests and the "Five Rivers and One Lake" water system have nurtured a good forest ecosystem, with a forest coverage rate of up to 63.1%, ranking among the top in the country. As the southern gate of Jiangxi, Ganzhou is an important ecological barrier in southern my country, with rich forest resources and is known as the "Oasis of Jiangnan".
"Green ecology is Jiangxi's greatest wealth, largest brand, and greatest advantage. We must do a good job in managing mountains and rivers and showing off mountains and waters, and create a beautiful China's "Jiangxi model"." General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions have made the people of the southern Jiangsu region of Jiangxi more solid and sonorous in practicing green development.
Today's Ganzhou, with the General Secretary's earnest care, the warm sun is full of lushness. While doing a good job in the word "forest", we will strive to open up the transformation channel of "two mountains", revitalize mountain and water resources, strengthen the green economy, and embark on a path of development with beautiful ecology, prosperous industries and rich people.
Dayu Yashan: protecting green waters and green mountains, and being rich and beautiful both
Yashan Scenic Area, covering an area of more than 30,000 mu, is named after the highest peak, Shuangxiu Peak, which is located in Meiguan National Forest Park in Dayu County, Ganzhou City. Meiguan stands at the Meiling Pass, known in history as "the first of the five ridges and the storm of the vast rivers". It has a dangerous terrain and rich vegetation in the original forest. It is a natural barrier between Jiangxi and Guangdong provinces. The forest coverage rate of up to 92.6% and the mature forest health care industry have gradually made the Yashan Scenic Area a back garden in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Walk into the Yashan Scenic Area of Meiguan National Forest Park. The forests are deep and the trees are dense, and the water flows. Guided by the five major development concepts of "innovation, coordination, greenness, openness and sharing", the concept of "green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains" has taken root here.
Meiguan National Forest Park Yashan Scenic Area Glass Plank Road. Photo by Han Lei.
The reporter found that in order not to damage vegetation, a 13-kilometer forest trail was raised high by a steel structure, and the towering trees on both sides of the trail built a green corridor for pedestrians. Building roads are paved along the mountains, walking along the ponds, building along the rivers, giving way to the road, building in the trees, and making way in the houses, and the trees grow in the houses... Carefully protect the life community of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes and grasses, Dayuya Mountain has built a new pattern of forest tourism industry complementary with "tourism" as the link, "health" as the main body, and "raising" as the feature.
General Manager of Yashan Scenic Area Han Lei told People's Daily reporters that during the development and construction of the scenic area, Dayu County has always adhered to the principle of "four fewer ponds, fewer mountains, fewer trees, and fewer demolished houses, combining afforestation with landscape construction to maintain the original ecology of the scenic area. At the same time, a total investment of 800 million yuan has been invested to develop various forest ecological sports and health projects in the protection process, building a three-dimensional ecological ornamental circle from the top to the bottom of the mountain. Based on beautiful ecology and high efficiency, rural tourism Adu Village, Adu Water Village and Adu Forest are built on Yashan's beautiful ecological environment, which constitute the three major rural tourism brands of Yashan, attracting many tourists from inside and outside the province. In 2019 alone, the various types of scenic spots reached 160 million yuan, of which the output value of ecological tourism and forest health care alone accounted for 1/3.
"Now, Yashan Scenic Area has built a series of brands based on green waters and green mountains, which not only brings gold and silver mountains, but also drives the surrounding villagers out of poverty and become rich." Han Lei said happily.
Lu Defeng, a 58-year-old villager in Toutang Village, is the representative of poverty alleviation and prosperity mentioned by Han Lei. Due to the severe rheumatism and foot pain all year round, the whole family has lived by relying solely on their husbands to make a living, and Lu Defeng and his family have become registered poor households. After being recommended by the village cadres in Huanglong Town, Dayu County, in 2016, his hometown sister-in-law Lu Defeng became a small boss in the "Jiuhuitou Food Street" of Yashan Scenic Area.
In the "Jiuhuitou Food Street" of Yashan Scenic Area, the hometown sister-in-law Lu Defeng made Ganzhou food "scalding" for tourists. Photo by Yu Lu, reporter of People's Daily.
"Yashan Scenic Area gives me the store free of rent, free training, dividends at the end of the year, and resettled my husband in the scenic area as a worker. During the epidemic, the scenic area was not open, and a monthly salary of 1,500 yuan was paid as a subsidy, which really helped me get rid of poverty." Lu Defeng said gratefully that after opening the store, his average annual income is now more than 40,000 yuan. Not only did he live in better living conditions, but his whole family also got rid of poverty last winter!
To develop industries and enrich the people is the "source driving force" for the sustainable development of forest tourism in Dayu County. Dayu County focuses on "poverty alleviation", innovate poverty alleviation models, and ensure that poverty alleviation achieves practical results. Lu Defeng and his family are just a microcosm of ecological poverty alleviation in Dayu County.
"As the first batch of pilot demonstration counties for the main ecological functional zones in the country, Dayu strives to make good ecology a 'good money prospect', and opens up ways for poor households around the scenic spot to increase their income by leasing agricultural supplies into rural tourism projects, working in scenic spots to generate income, participating in project equity dividends, and selling agricultural products. At present, the scenic spots in the county have driven more than 5,700 people to increase their income and become rich, with an annual income increase of about 5,000 yuan per capita. Villagers can achieve employment and increase their income without leaving the village." Liu Peng, deputy county magistrate of Dayu County, said.
Ecological Chongyi: Accurately improve forest quality and cultivate green industry development advantages
There is a place surrounded by forests at the southwestern border of Jiangxi Province, at the source of Zhangjiang River. It is Chongyi County, Ganzhou City.
"Jiufenshan and half of the fields, half of the road, water surface and manor." It is a true portrayal of Chongyi.
Chongyi County has a total area of 3.01 million mu, of which 2.69 million mu of forest land, accounting for 89.3% of the total land area, and the forest coverage rate is as high as 88.3%, ranking first among collective forest counties in the country. It is a national demonstration county for ecological civilization construction, a national key ecological functional area, a national forest city, and is known as the "Green Treasure House of Jiangxi Province".
Yangmingshan National Forest Park. Photo by Huang Xiao.
In recent years, Chongyi County has actively practiced the concept of "green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains", adhered to ecological priority and green development, seized the opportunities for revitalization and development of the southern Jiangxi Soviet Area, learned the "two mountains" theory well, followed the "two transformation" path, relying on its own ecological advantages, launched a green brand, and realized ecological value.
reporter walked into Yangmingshan National Forest Park in the southern suburbs of Chongyi County. The ancient trees were towering, flowers and trees were spread all year round, the waterfalls were winding in the valleys, and the cliffs on the top of the mountain were rugged, which was deeply attracted by the original forest style. The forest coverage rate in the park is as high as 98.6%, and the average air negative oxygen ion content is 96,000/cubic centimeter. Among them, the highest value at Lanxi Waterfall is 190,000/cubic centimeter, which is known as China's most beautiful forest and "China Forest Oxygen Bar".
Actively cultivate green waters and green mountains, effectively strengthen forest resource protection, accurately improve forest quality, and promote forest development to speed up quality and efficiency. Chongyi has achieved the organic unity of beautiful ecology and rich people.
reporter learned that promoting land greening is the top priority of forestry ecological construction in Chongyi County. From 2011 to the present, the county has completed renewal and afforestation of 316,700 mu, and 106,500 mu of low-quality and inefficient forest transformation, with a forest coverage rate of up to 88.3%. At the same time, we have focused on improving forest quality and actively explored a business model suitable for high yields and efficient southern forest areas. We have built 1.4 million mu of commercial materials bases and 510,000 mu of forest management model forest bases. Driven by the demonstration of model forests, forest quality has been accurately improved, and the forest land output rate has increased by 2-3 times compared with the period of relying on the sky. The precise improvement of Chongyi forest quality has become a "national model".
"Green ecology is Chongyi's greatest wealth, greatest advantage and greatest brand. Forestry is the advantage, potential and hope of Chongyi's development. Chongyi County relies on its forest resource endowment, closely follow the 'four efforts', comprehensively implement the 'forest chief system', and make every effort to manage mountains and water, and explore new ways to complement and complement each other by improving economic development and ecological civilization level." Pan Jincheng, deputy secretary of the Chongyi County Party Committee and county magistrate, told the People's Daily reporter.
How to give full play to its ecological advantages and develop a forest economy well? Huang Xiaxiao, director of the Chongyi County Forestry Bureau, said that while building the ecological barrier in southern Jiangxi, Chongyi has explored a new "six-one" ecological industry path combining protection and development with ecological poverty alleviation.That is, a jujube (southern jujube), a vine (pickled grape), a piece of bamboo (moebamboo), a pound of oil (oil tea), a medicine (Chinese herbal medicine), and a region tour (forest whole-region tourism).
As of now, Chongyi has 250,000 mu of wild jujubes distributed in southern sour jujubes; the area of monumental bamboo forest is 700,000 mu, with an annual output of 10 million commercial bamboos; the planting area of oil tea forest is 128,900 mu, and 15 demonstration bases for low-reform reform of oil tea forests over 100 mu; in 2019, the total economic output value of forest reached 3.03 billion yuan, accounting for 63.6% of the total forestry output value; in the past three years, forest tourism revenue has been 8.732 billion yuan.
The mountains and rivers are still: building an important ecological barrier in the southern region
"The long river flows in the water, and one hundred bays are less than one bay. The creation knows that it is too mysterious, so I don't leave enough to see it." The poet Su Dongpo left a masterpiece of eternal songs for the clear and colorful Shangyou River.
is located in Shangyou County in western Ganzhou. It is surrounded by mountains and the tops are connected to the Nanling Mountains and rivers, with high mountains and long rivers.
Ganzhou Yangming Lake National Forest Park. Photo by Zhong Fangyi.
In midsummer, the reporter walked on a boat in the Yangming Lake National Forest Park in Ganzhou, surrounded by mountains and rivers. "One lake and two banks" came into view. The lake was rippling with blue waves and the green mountains on both sides were towering.
"The Gannan Arboretum was founded in 1976 and consists of twelve peninsulas, covering an area of 8,692 acres. More than 1,300 species of tree species are collected here, including more than 50 national protected tree species." In the Gannan Arboretum deep in Yangming Lake, Li Ganrong, deputy director of the Gannan Arboretum, told reporters as he knew it, "The Gannan Arboretum has a typical lake ecological environment and the superior natural endowment characteristics of the Nanling Mountains. It is called the Central Subtropical Plant Kingdom and is a natural nature museum."
Li Ganrong introduced the situation of the Gannan Arboretum to the reporter. Photo by Yu Lu, reporter of People's Daily.
Li Ganrong, 57 years old this year, has been silently guarding the arboretum for 38 years. "Treat them like their own life." In Li Ganrong's view, it is the greatest happiness for foresters to travel thousands of miles to transplant saplings into the arboretum and protect them from growing up.
"Every sapling comes with an ID card whenever we come to the arboretum. We usually record their growth on the computer. Now, we have also used big data to manage every tree." Li Ganrong introduced that the arboretum contains garden plants from all over the country and precious varieties from foreign countries such as the United States, Myanmar, Mexico, Japan, and Europe. The Gannan Arboretum plays an important role in building an important ecological barrier in the southern region. It is a typical representative functional area of the "kingdom of plant diversity" and "ancient relic plant shelter". It is an important transit station for the introduction and cultivation of southern tree species into the northern region. It is known as the "Jiangnan Plant Gene Bank".
In recent years, in addition to effectively maintaining the safety of important ecological barriers in the southern region, Shangyou County has also worked hard to do a full "ecological +" article. Relying on the rich rural landscape resources, pastoral scenery, etc., with all-region tourism as the driving force, it has opened up new paths and new business forms of rural tourism.
"We have carefully created the 'five business cards' of ecological tourism in 'one fish, a painting, a cup of tea, a stone, and a small train', focusing on the development of ecological tourism flagship products such as ecological fish, oil painting, ornamental stone, hot springs, forest trains, etc., to attract a large number of tourists from surrounding cities and Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to come for leisure and tourism." Liu Xiaohui, secretary of the Party Committee of Shangyou County Forestry Bureau, told the People's Daily reporter.
on Youyangming International Fishing Base. Photo by Zhong Fangyi.
Now, in order to keep the green mountains flowing in the green waters and continue to strengthen the ecological tourism industry, Shangyou County is guided by green development, closely following the goal of building an "ecological leisure resort" and playing Shangyou's "green card". A number of tourism projects such as Tianmu Yangming Hot Spring and Yangming International Fishing Base have been accelerated, and activities such as the Million League Cup Fishing Rally, Tea Village Tourism Season have been carried out, and the tourism market is becoming more and more mature. In 2019, the county received a total of 5.4566 million tourists, an increase of 41% year-on-year, and achieved a comprehensive tourism revenue of 3.979 billion yuan, an increase of 52.9% year-on-year.
opens up new paths for green development, vigorously promotes industrial ecology and ecological industrialization, and let "green water and green mountains" truly transform into "gold and silver mountains" that benefit future generations. Red Ganzhou has entered the fast lane of green development.To create a "Jiangxi model" for beautiful China, Ganzhou Forestry has become the main force in implementing the concept of "green water and green mountains are gold and silver mountains". Looking at the present, the "red outfit" in the past has changed to "green outfit". Looking forward to the future, turning "green" into "gold", full of hope!
